| Director: | Jelena Maksimović |
|---|---|
| Production: | Taurunum Film (Jelena Angelovski) |
| Running Time: | 91’ |
| Language: | Serbo-Croatian |
| Country: | Serbia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Montenegro, Croatia, Germany |
| Main Cast: | Lena Trifunović, Andrija Krivokapić, Irina Hotomski, Stefan Tarabić, Miodrag Miša Dragičević |
| Screenplay: | Jelena Maksimović, Ivan Salatić, Olga Dimitrijević |
| Cinematographer: | Paul Spengemann |
| Editor: | Jan Klemsche |
| Production Designer: | Livija Mikić |
| Costume Designer: | Milica Kolarić, Barbi Drmota |
| Music: | Vladimir Živković, Ace Vaptsarov |
| Sound: | Vladimir Živković, Julij Zornik |
| Visual Effects: | NuFrame |
Cinema
Do kraja dana (Until the day ends)
Orizzonti
Synopsis
Belgrade is a city split in two. In the occupied buildings and crowded streets, Lena fights for a world she believes can be changed. From the same neighbourhood, Stefan is torn between the life he wants and the forces pulling him to the other side of the protests. When they meet, they recognise a shared restlessness neither can quite name.
Director’s Statement
In 2021, while mentoring a workshop, I met a girl named Lena whose presence awakened vivid memories of my own adolescence. Through her, I caught a glimpse of how my younger self might look and think today. She inspired the fictional protagonist of Do kraja dana.
Growing up in Zemun, a municipality of Belgrade, under the shadow of rigid masculine norms, I longed to escape the roles imposed on me. That discomfort, defiance and urge to run fuel this story.
Set against Serbia’s largest student protests – among the largest in Europe – which erupted after the collapse of a railway station canopy in Novi Sad that killed sixteen people, the film follows Lena (20), an anarchist student active in the anti-government movement, and Stefan (22), a working-class youth who finds himself, almost by chance, among pro- government loyalists. Standing on opposite sides of the protests, they navigate ideological and intimate conflict in a fractured post-Yugoslav society.
The cast is composed primarily of non-professional actors whose performances carry traces of their own lives. The only professional actor portrays Lena’s brother, whose actions set off a chain of impulsive decisions that shape her journey throughout the film. The point of view mainly stays close to Lena and Stefan, using obstruction and off-screen space to evoke a sense of entrapment. It gradually opens into predominantly static, contemplative compositions in nature. Blending conventions of melodrama, comedy, crime and road movie, the film forms an elliptical coming-of-age portrait of adolescence and resistance.
Production/distribution
PRODUCTION 1:
Taurunum Film - Jelena Angelovski,
Alaska 24
11080 Beograd, Serbia
Tel: +381 641901977
E-mail: lenka.angelovski@gmail.com
Social Media: @taurunum_film - Instagram
PRODUCTION 2:
PREMIERstudio - Nikolay Mutafchiev,
Han Omurtag 2
1124 Sofia, Bulgaria
Tel: +359 877600028
E-mail: premierstudio.eu@gmail.com
Web: http://www.premierstudiofilms.com/
Social Media: @nikolaymutafchiev - Instagram
PRODUCTION 3:
Staragara - Miha Černec, Jožko Rutar,
Tržaška cesta 2
1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tel: +386 31838761
E-mail: miha@staragara.com
Web: http://staragara.com/
Social Media: @staragara.production – Instagram, staragara.slo - Facebook, STARAGARA. - LinkedIn, Staragara2003 – YouTube
PRODUCTION 4:
Meander Film - Dušan Kasalica, Ivan Salatić,
Vuka Karadžića 6a
81400 Nikšić, Montenegro
Tel: +382 67019800
E-mail: meanderfilm@gmail.com
Web: http://www.meanderfil.com
Social Media: @meander_film – Instagram, meanderfilm – Facebook
OTHER PRODUCTIONS:
Steffen Goldkamp - Kelek Film, Arda Çiltepe - Kelek Film,Tena Gojić - Dinaridi Film
WORLD SALES:
Heretic - Ioanna Stais
36, alkmanos str.
11528 Athens, Greece
Tel: +30 210 600 52 60
E-mail: ioanna@heretic.gr
Web: http://www.heretic.gr
Social Media: @heretic.films - Instagram, Heretic - LinkedIn
PRESS OFFICE:
Mirjam Wiekenkamp - NOISE Film TV
Tel: +31 628652249
E-mail: mirjam@noisefilmpr.com
